Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and author of “The Color Purple,” was reached by Foreign Policy magazine from her hotel in Greece, as she prepares to board a flotilla (or...
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Shiva Watch: Ah, Just One More Thing… Peter Falk Succumbs
The actor, Peter Michael Falk, the star if the television detective series, Columbo, passed away today at the age of 83. Falk played an eccentric detective and lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police...
Delta: We love to fly. And it shows… unless you’re…
Jewish? Delta Airlines awoke this week to two new stories. First, their SkyTeam alliance has entered into an agreement with Saudi Arabian Airlines. Second, many bloggers have cried out, writing that...
Shalom YPSA and Shalom YIISA
With commencement over and the campus empty of many students, activists, student newspaper editorial writers, and faculty, Yale University announced that it is shuttering its Yale Initiative for the...
Shiva Watch: Israel’s Richest and the World’s Noblest
Early June experienced some significant passings, including: Mietek Pemper: Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Pemper passed away in Augsberg, Germany this month at the age of 91. Pemper was a prisoner in the...
Bloomsday in Kikar Bryant and Rehov Eccles Sheva
There are few joyous Jewish holidays between Shavuot and Jerusalem Day in June, and the start of the High Holidays in September, unless you also count The Tony Awards and Bloomsday. Neil Patrick...